**beefking rolled a random image posted in comment #132 at Your Guardian Angel ** Brotherhood is true to the manga, You can consider the Full Metal, to be another telling of the story, an alternate version if you will. Both are amazing Anime's though.

I like both, but some stuff in the second half of the first anime didn't make much sense, namely anything involving Dante and Wrath. If a Homunculus is created by a failed attempt at human transmutation, and thus looks like the person they were meant to be, why did Wrath look to be around age 10? Izumi was trying to resurrect an infant.

I'm not sure if that was ever proved in the first anime, and it only happened in the second because he was originally a human who was injected with a liquefied Stone, so he still maintained his ability to age, still being at least partially human.

See, this was my beef with the first anime, they never explained that part either. I guess there was nothing in the first anime saying they can't age or reproduce. I just wish they had made some things make a little more sense, even without holding true to the manga that hadn't been written yet.

They distracted everyone from that stuff with lotsa dark stuff.
The manga is much more shounen, so all the action makes you wonder about the mysteries, while the anime gives you enough mysteries to ignore that kinda ****.